Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise, for the Crimson, Noel Scidmore and Peter Fitzsimmons turned in particularly noteworthy performances as they finished eighteenth and twentyfourth. Scidmore ran yesterday for the first time since recovering from a bout with viral pneumonia and Fitzsimmons, all-Ivy as a freshman and sophomore, competed for the first time in 1977, a year in which he has been sidelined with tendonitis...
...group of San Francisco researchers has successfully used a vaccine to prevent pneumonia and reported their discovery in an issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published yesterday...
...vaccine, made from the sugar coating of the bacteria, is particularly important because it will be useful against new strains of pneumonia recently found that are resistant to the usual antibiotic treatment...
...first the patients seemed to be suffering from simple pneumonia. But when doctors at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington investigated further last August, they realized that they were probably dealing with something more puzzling and dangerous. As Dr. Harry Beaty, the hospital's chief of medicine, recalls, the symptoms-dry cough, abdominal pain, general malaise -"were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia...
...their disease-that at least four patients had been infected before they came to the hospital. Then where did the disease originate? No one knows yet. But as they continued looking for telltale signs of Legionnaires' disease -characteristic antibodies-in the blood of other Vermonters who recently had "pneumonia," investigators expected to find still more cases. Said Dr. Charles Phillips, head of the hospital's infectious diseases unit: "The honest-to-goodness truth is that the disease is all over...